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Incidents

Unscheduled Equipment Failure During Cycle Five Monitoring

Three of four recording instruments monitoring for the Black Signal's fifth cycle failed within the same eleven-minute window the cycle was recorded, an equipment coincidence never previously observed in this designation's history.

Archive record

Failures

Two magnetometers and one digital recorder monitoring the same site independently failed within an eleven-minute span that overlapped exactly with the fifth recorded interval cycle. The fourth instrument, an older analog backup, continued recording without interruption and is the sole source for SIG-0024.

Assessment

A Materials Laboratory review found no shared point of failure across the three instruments — different manufacturers, different power sources, different physical locations within the site. The review closed as unresolved.

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